Mapping Atlanta

With 124 cameras per 1,000 residents, Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now.

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@mappingATL @atlanta_press Can you provide a concrete example of the city using these cameras to criminalize and suppress dissent?

With 124 cameras per 1,000 residents, Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now.

@atlanta_press But there’s no evidence that these surveillance cameras help to prevent or solve crime. Instead they serve to criminalize and suppress dissent, while funneling millions in public dollars to private corporations like Fusus and Flock Safety that enable fascists like ICE.

With help from our friends at @atlanta_press, we've mapped just the 4.2% of these 60,000+ cameras that are owned and operated by the city to give insight into the pervasive geography of surveillance here in Atlanta. Read more 👇👇 mappingatlanta.org/2025/06/09/cit…

You can tell where it snowed and where it didn't.

Racial capitalism is the key driver of the racial wealth gap (bc that’s what it is intended to do). Banking is just one capitalist system that enables it. Improving “access” to capitalism won’t end racial inequality. Capitalism must be destroyed.

Unequal access to the financial and banking system is one of the key drivers of the racial wealth gap here in Atlanta and across the country. Our latest post builds on a newly-published paper to examine the geographies of banking across the Atlanta metro mappingatlanta.org/2024/10/23/ban…

The Housing Justice League is inviting you to join our upcoming workshop in Gwinnett to fight against the corporate landlord monopoly takeover! Wednesday, October 30th inside Five Forks Branch Library in Lawrenceville, GA at 6PM! housingjustice.controlshift.app/events/october…

Remember all those homes across metro Atlanta being bought up by a handful of corporate landlords? Well now is the time to join @HJL_Atlanta in the fight against the corporate takeover of Atlanta's housing market! Register for this Saturday's workshop: housingjustice.controlshift.app/events/end-the…

this map is about to become my whole personality

It feels like every week there’s a new food hall concept being opened or announced somewhere across metro Atlanta. But who are these food halls actually for? And how can mapping them help us find an answer? mappingatlanta.org/2024/02/07/foo…

learn GIS and you, too, can find any internet bully’s home address, fraudulent LLCs, delinquent tax bills, etc. in approx 45 seconds

Given that we already know Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the country, this should come as no surprise. But this shows it isn't just the City of Atlanta leading the way, but at least 10 other metro ATL police departments with access to thousands of surveillance cameras.

"With Dickens’ paralyzing fixation on law enforcement, the largest wealth gap in the country, 100% of unarmed people killed by police being Black and ranking as the most surveilled city in the nation, this is no Mecca for vulnerable people." essence.com/news/atlanta-d…

Atlanta has one of the worst adoption rates for rooftop solar of any major US city ☀️☹️ Where is Atlanta's residential rooftop solar capacity and how has it changed over time? And why does it matter? Check out our latest post to find out 👇👇 mappingatlanta.org/2024/01/09/atl…

Only realizing now that it was kind of unintentionally ironic to post this today... 🌧️☂️🌊